The relationship between cortisol production rate and serial serum cortisol estimation in patients on medical therapy for Cushing's syndrome.

abstract：:Sulpiride, a dopamine receptor blocker which raises prolactin, was given to six women with idiopathic amenorrhoea for 10 days and to eleven women with regular cycles for 3 to 6 months. The latter group developed galactorrhoea and amenorrhoea during treatment. Basal LH AND FSH concentrations showed no significant chang...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Buvat J,Thomas K,Racadot A,Blacker C,Buvat-Herbaut M,Ferin F,Linquette M

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Results from the published studies on the association of adiponectin gene (ADIPOQ) polymorphisms with blood lipids and blood pressure are conflicting. We investigated the association of three ADIPOQ polymorphisms, +45 T > G (rs2241766), +276 G > T (rs1501299) and -11377 C > G (rs266729), with these traits in ...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Zhao T,Zhao J

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 32-year-old Caucasian male, clinically euthyroid, with paranoid schizophrenia and granulocytopenia, had elevated total and free serum T4 and T3; serum TSH was normal (2.7 +/- 0.7 micronU/ml). There was no goitre present, no evidence of Graves' disease, and no evidence of pituitary tumour. He had a normal response to...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Tamagna EI,Carlson HE,Hershman JM,Reed AW

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Patients with type 1 diabetes are at increased risk of cardiovascular disease, which may be related to abnormal lipid metabolism. Secretion and clearance of VLDL apolipoprotein B100 (apoB) are important determinants of plasma lipid concentrations and are known to be influenced by hormones, including insulin ...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Christ ER,Carroll PV,Albany E,Umpleby AM,Lumb PJ,Wierzbicki AS,Simpson HL,Sönksen PH,Russell-Ones DL

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Non-tumour causes of hyperprolactinaemia, including prolactin-elevating drugs, must be excluded. There is a general view that such drugs are unlikely to raise serum PRL above 3000 mU/I, but the literature is confusing. We report 8 patients receiving treatment with neuroleptic drugs, whose serum PRL concentrat...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Pollock A,McLaren EH

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Mutations in SLC16A2, the gene encoding the thyroid hormone (TH)-specific transporter monocarboxylate transporter 8 (MCT8), result in a thyroid phenotype and severe mental retardation caused by neuronal TH deficiency. These mutational effects raise the question of whether polymorphic variation in SLC16A2 may ...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Lago-Lestón R,Iglesias MJ,San-José E,Areal C,Eiras A,Araújo-Vilar D,Lado-Abeal J,Domínguez-Gerpe L

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new radioreceptor assay for insulin-like growth factor-II (IGF-II), using receptors on ovine placental membranes, is described. Half-maximal displacement of specifically bound radioiodinated human IGF-II tracer was seen at 1.0 ng/tube of unlabelled IGF-II. The cross-reactivity of IGF-I was 1%, and insulin was entire...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Baxter RC,de Mellow JS

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES:Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a heterogeneous disorder characterized by chronic anovulation, hyperandrogenism, polycystic ovary morphology (PCOM) and metabolic disturbances including insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Although insulin resistance could be associated with PCOM, r...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Hong SH,Sung YA,Hong YS,Jeong K,Chung H,Lee H

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of the present study was to elucidate the parathyroid responsiveness by measurements of blood ionized calcium and serum intact parathyroid hormone (PTH) concentrations, before and during trisodium citrate induced hypocalcaemia. PATIENTS AND CONTROLS:Sixteen patients with primary hyperparathyroi...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Schwarz P,Sørensen HA,Momsen G,McNair P,Transbøl I

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a patient with unilateral thyroid carcinoma, who developed hyperfunction of the thyroid gland during the metastatic progression of the thyroid carcinoma. Concurrently with this event, TSI increased and it is suggested that the differentiated aggressive metastatic thyroid neoplasm had initiated the autoimmune...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Steffensen FH,Aunsholt NA

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An LHRH test was performed on twenty-eight regularly menstruating females during follicular phase of their cycles. Twenty-four were then given an intramuscular injection of progesterone in oil and retested with LHRH 20 or 44 h later, the remaining four received no pretreatment and acted as controls. The twelve subject...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Shaw RW,Butt WR,London DR

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The study was designed to examine the effect of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) on adiponectin and leptin levels. We have previously demonstrated that PCI triggers a systemic inflammatory response. We hypothesized that inflammation participates in the pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus and the metabol...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Azar RR,Sarkis A,Salameh E,Gannagé-Yared MH,Amm-Azar M,Badaoui G,Germanos M,Kassab R

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The diagnostic impact of chromogranin A (CgA) measurement has been studied in various neuroendocrine tumours (NET) such as pheochromocytomas, gastrinomas and neuroblastomas. Clinically nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas (NFPA) are generally diagnosed on tumoural symptoms or hypopituitarism and, except for gona...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Gussi IL,Young J,Baudin E,Bidart JM,Chanson P

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant human TSH (rhTSH) has revolutionized the care of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer. Since its approval for clinical use in 2001 in Europe (1998 in the USA), rhTSH has greatly enhanced the surveillance of these patients by allowing the avoidance of hypothyroidism for TSH stimulation. Previously, a...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Woodmansee WW,Haugen BR

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The opiate control of the pituitary-adrenal axis has been investigated in normal subjects. The infusion of 1 mg of the met-enkephalin analogue, DAMME, led to a fall in circulating cortisol in spite of a fall in blood pressure. Conversley, 16 mg of the opiate antagonist, naloxone led to brisk and pronounced elevations ...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Grossman A,Gaillard RC,McCartney P,Rees LH,Besser GM

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There are advantages and disadvantages with all of the presently available types of testosterone replacement for hypogonadal men. We performed this investigation to establish detailed data about the pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, feasibility and side-effects of subcutaneously implanted testosterone (T) p...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Jockenhövel F,Vogel E,Kreutzer M,Reinhardt W,Lederbogen S,Reinwein D

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES:Postnatal depression correlates with postpartum weight retention, and dysregulated cortisol metabolism is evident in depressed individuals. Cortisol metabolism, BMI and metabolic phenotype are robustly associated, but the role of cortisol metabolism in postnatal mental health and weight loss has...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Rogers SL,Hughes BA,Tomlinson JW,Blissett J

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The prevalence of clinically silent corticotroph macroadenomas is unknown. Our aim was to determine the prevalence of clinically silent corticotroph macroadenomas among all pituitary macroadenomas. DESIGN:Patients scheduled to have transsphenoidal surgery for any sellar mass were prospectively evaluated clin...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Guttenberg KB,Mayson SE,Sawan C,Kharlip J,Lee JY,Martinez-Lage M,Loevner LA,Ewanichak J,Grady MS,Snyder PJ

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Genotype and phenotype heterogeneity in patients with GH insensitivity syndrome suggests that partial defects exist in the GH receptor. Children with partial GH resistance would be expected to have short stature, elevated GH levels and relatively low levels of IGF-I and IGFBP-3. Provocation tests of the GH-IG...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Cotterill AM,Camacho-Hübner C,Duquesnoy P,Savage MO

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Men with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (HH) are typically azoospermic, and yet HH is one of the few treatable forms of male infertility. Sperm induction protocols using gonadotrophins aim to replicate the natural endocrine control of spermatogenesis. Previously virilised men with adult-onset HH and normal testicular v...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Prior M,Stewart J,McEleny K,Dwyer AA,Quinton R

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The relationship between growth hormone (GH) therapy and malignancy, including leukaemias, remains controversial. In order to study this possible relationship further, we have investigated whether GH treatment induces chromosomal abnormalities in peripheral blood lymphocytes. DESIGN:Open, prospective study i...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Bozzola M,Tettoni K,Severi F,Capra E,Danesino C,Scappaticci S

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of serum calcium, PTH, CT and gastrin to an infusion of secretin (3 CU/kg/h) over a period of 90 min was studied in ten healthy males and two female patients with hypoparathyroidism. In the healthy males serum calcium, after a transient fall, significantly increased at 45 min after the onset of the infusi...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Lo Cascio V,Piubello W,Cominacini L,Vantini I,Galvanini G,Ederle A,Cavallini G,Scuro LA

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from patients with Graves' disease and Hashimoto's thyroiditis were reacted with normal T lymphocyte preparations in an attempt to detect binding of immunoglobulin G (IgG) to T cells. Sera from normal subjects and patients with toxic adenomas served as controls. Each serum was reacted with at least three differen...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Pacini F,Sridama V,Pressendo J,DeGroot LJ,Medof ME

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Subclinical hypercortisolism (SH) has been associated with increased prevalence of hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, dyslipidaemia, central obesity, osteoporosis and vertebral fractures. We aimed to investigate the accuracy of different SH diagnostic criteria in predicting the presence of complications....

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Morelli V,Masserini B,Salcuni AS,Eller-Vainicher C,Savoca C,Viti R,Coletti F,Guglielmi G,Battista C,Iorio L,Beck-Peccoz P,Ambrosi B,Arosio M,Scillitani A,Chiodini I

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:One of the aims of a subcutaneous (SC) injection is to avoid intradermal or intramuscular injections. Pen systems are an alternative solution to single-use syringes and have become standard for example diabetes therapy. Shorter and smaller needles minimize pain and the risk of intramuscular injections. The th...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Ludescher B,Rommel M,Willmer T,Fritsche A,Schick F,Machann J

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Between 10 and 30% of the fine needle aspiration biopsies (FNABs) of thyroid nodules are diagnosed as 'indeterminate'. A molecular diagnostic method is needed to reduce unnecessary surgery in this group. In Korea, most thyroid cancer is the classic papillary type and the BRAF(V600E) mutation is highly preval...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Chung KW,Yang SK,Lee GK,Kim EY,Kwon S,Lee SH,Park DJ,Lee HS,Cho BY,Lee ES,Kim SW

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The standard ACTH test in clinical use employs a pharmacological dose of ACTH which assesses the maximum secretory capacity of the adrenal cortex. We have investigated the responses of plasma adrenocortical steroids including cortisol, aldosterone and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) to physiological doses of AC...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Daidoh H,Morita H,Mune T,Murayama M,Hanafusa J,Ni H,Shibata H,Yasuda K

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to investigate the diagnostic performance of pre-operative staging ultrasound (US) according to body mass index (BMI) in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) PATIENTS AND METHODS: This retrospective study included 625 patients with PTC who underwent pre-operative staging U...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Choi JS,Lee HS,Kim EK,Moon HJ,Kwak JY

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Little is known about the dose-response relationship of potential, unwanted, effects of inhaled beclomethasone (BDP) on the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, particularly in nonspecialist clinic settings. The purpose of our study was to investigate the dose-response relationship of inhaled BDP on the ...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Grebe SK,Feek CM,Durham JA,Kljakovic M,Cooke RR

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Antithyroidal drugs (ATD) are used in the management of Graves' disease either as primary therapy for several months while awaiting remission of the disease or as pretreatment for several weeks prior to definitive radioactive iodine therapy (RAI). We have reported previously that pretreatment with propylthiou...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Hancock LD,Tuttle RM,LeMar H,Bauman J,Patience T

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00